Two Binibining Pilipinas queens to compete in int’l pageants

 

Binibining Pilipinas Globe 2021 Maureen Montagne and Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2021 Cinderella Obeñita 

by Manila Bulletin Entertainment

Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. (BPCI) continues its traditional farewell for competing queens via a virtual rousing send-off party for Binibining Pilipinas Globe 2021 Maureen Montagne and Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2021 Cinderella Obeñita on Friday, Oct. 8.

Aired via the official Facebook page and YouTube channel of Binibining Pilipinas , the online gathering showered Maureen and Cindy with love and support from their Queen Sisters, members of the press, and their families, as they suit up for their respective pageants, days before their fly off to their respective destinations.

During the send-off, the queens were received by BPCI Chairman, Mrs. Stella Marquez-Araneta, in Araneta City with a warm recognition.  

“My dearest Cindy and Maureen, I wish you the best of luck in representing the Philippines on the international stage. Embrace this opportunity to show the world the best qualities of a Filipina. . .You have the full support of Binibining Pilipinas in your next big adventure. We know you will give your all, so believe in yourself, just have fun, and bring home the crown,” Madame Araneta said.

Cagayan De Oro’s pride, Cindy will be first to compete at the Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt on October 30. She follows in the footsteps of Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2019 Emma Mary Tiglao, who finished in the Top 20. Cindy’s goal is to be the second Filipina to wear the Miss Intercontinental crown after Karen Gallman.

The Batangueña beauty, Maureen will vie for the Miss Globe crown on November 6 in Tirana, Alabania. She follows in the tilt of Miss Globe 2019 2nd runner-up Leren Bautista, and aims to bring home our country’s second Miss Globe crown.

“Fortes in fide”

By Fr. Roy Cimagala *

          THAT’S “strong in the faith” in English. The expression

comes from the First Letter of St. Peter (5,9) and is made also in the

First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (16,13) Both passages are

made in the context of our need to be always on guard against the

enemies of our soul and to be trusting of God’s will and ways.

          We need to make our faith strong and operative because that

is how we can start and maintain our life to be a life with God as it

should be. With faith, we start to share God’s knowledge of things and

his power, and that is how our life should be since we are God’s image

and likeness, meant to share in the very life of God.

          At one point, Christ lamented the common phenomenon of our

lack of faith. “This generation is an evil generation,” he said. “It

seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.”

(cfr. Lk 11,29-32)

          If there is no faith, we will never see the things of God

and the rich reality of the truly spiritual and supernatural world, no

matter how much we spin our human powers to capture this reality. Not

even our powerful sciences and technologies can enter into the

spiritual and supernatural reality of our life.

          We have to realize that our faith should not remain only in

the theoretical, intellectual level. It has to be a functioning one,

giving shape and direction in our thoughts and intentions, our words

and deeds. In fact, it should shape our whole life.

          The ideal condition is for us to feel our faith immediately.

Indeed, it should be like an instinct such that whatever we think, say

or do, or whenever we have to react to something, it is our faith that

should guide us.

          We have to understand that it is our faith that gives us the

global picture of things, since it is God’s gift to us, a gratuitous

sharing of what God knows about himself and about the whole of

creation. It is meant for our own good, for us to live out our true

dignity as children of God.

          It is a kind of knowledge that will lead us to our eternal

life. It will make us relate everything in our earthly life, both the

good and the bad, to this ultimate goal in life which is to be in

heaven with God, a state that is supernatural. But it is a divine gift

that we need to take care of. It is like a seed that has to grow until

it becomes a big tree and bears fruit.

          For this, we really need to have a living contact with

Christ who is the fullness of God’s revelation to us. He is the

substance, the content and the spirit of our faith. So, the first

thing that we have to do is to look for him always in whatever thing

we are thinking, saying or doing.

          We need to check our attitudes and dispositions. Do we

really look for him, in the manner spelled out by Christ himself, that

is, with constancy and determination? Christ said: “Ask, and it shall

be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened

unto you.” (Mt 7,7)

          Of course, we have to understand that a functioning faith is

also the result of being actively guided by the Church which has been

given full powers by Christ to keep and teach the faith with his very

own authority.

* Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com

PAPER STILL MATTERS?

My column in Mindanao Daily News and BusinessWeek Mindanao

OPINION

By KLAUS DÖRING

 

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The frequent whirring of printers in offices - despite the Internet, Microsoft Word, social media (I love Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter), scanners, smart phones applications and many much more - attest to that.

I was very old fashioned in many things. While still typing on an old manual typewriter,  my former colleagues in different publishing houses already used electric units. I loved my antique typewriter. I love it till today. Yes, it's still here at my office in Davao City. I can't use it anymore, because no more ribbons are available in the Philippines. It's fine for me. My electric typewriter is also here. Just beside the manual unit. Those were the days, my love... .

It has been sometimes at the end of the 1990's. I worked in an international publishing house in Berlin with branches in Amsterdam and New York. I still used one of those wonderful electric typewriters - and tried to avoid a personal computer. During that time, I needed to hold paper in my hands. Paper, says the productivity expert David Allen, is "in your face". I strongly agree with David. He said, "Its physical presence can be a goal to completing tasks, whereas computer files can easily be hidden and thus forgotten. I am also returning to paper planners for this very reason. Smile ... .

David Allen, the author of "Getting Things Done", does much of his writing on a computer. So do I meanwhile. But, there are still times when writing with a fountain pen on a notepad. It allows "us" to get "our" heads in the right place. When I tried to learn more from David Allen, I really got surprised, that we have many things in common. Old fashioned or not? I don't care. Here are some facts:

Paper print outs serve an important function. For long texts, a print out can allow a reader to better understand relationships between sections and writings. Paper handouts are still a presence at meetings partly because they are useful for taking notes. Reading a long document on paper rather than on a computer screen helps people "better understand the geography of the argument contained within, "said Richard H.R. Harper, a principal researcher for Microsoft in Cambridge/England and co-author with Abigail J. Sellen of "The Myth of the Paperless Office," published already in 2001.

I also strongly agree with Sellen, saying that using more than one computer screen can be helpful for all this cognitive juggling. But when workers are going back and forth between points in a longer document, it can be more efficient to read on paper.

How about "e-reading a book"? A novel, a drama, whatever? What do you prefer, my dear reader? You wanna know my opinion? I am sure, you can imagine. Yes guys, I still need a book in my hands for my leisure reading. I need to feel the book as well as I need to smell a fresh-printed newspaper. Environment savers might start yelling at me now, though I am one of them. So, where is the edge and borderline?

Paper can be indeed a luscious and beautiful thing - the way we savor fine food and wine, as Steve Leveen, co-founder and CEO of Levenger, said. People complain that writing by hand is slow (yes I am really!), BUT that can be good for thinking and creating! Here we are again!

Yes, it matters still: in defence of the power of paper! What do you think, my dear readers, while holding this newspaper right now in your hands?